saler
\sa.le\
The verdict
“saler” is uncommon French (frequency #51,732 among 394,209 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,732
- frequency rank, French
- 394,209
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Assaisonner avec du sel.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | saler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sa.le\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #51,732 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “saler” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
saler is uncommon French at frequency #51,732 among 394,209 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \sa.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for saler, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is saler, spelled S-A-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Assaisonner avec du sel.
- 2Mettre du sel sur des viandes crues, des poissons pour les préserver de la corruption et les conserver longtemps.
- 3Punir sévèrement, frapper d’une punition, d’une condamnation sévère.
- 4Ajouter une donnée supplémentaire dans une fonction de hachage pour empêcher que deux informations identiques conduisent au même hash, permettant de décoder.
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This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “saler”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-A-L-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \sa.le\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.